Can United States Run on Solar Energy only? (Possible?)

Critics suggests that there isn’t enough land in the US to power up the whole country using solar energy. While it may seem like an impractical question but let’s analysis what if it is actually possible to do so while ignoring practical constraints like storage and grid technology. Can solar energy actually power up the entire US whose annual consumption is 4,090 TWh as per 2017 statics.

The notion of trying to run a huge nation on solar is more of a “thought experiment” than anything else. It’s definitely possible, but not logical to do so because it is not required to generate all US electricity this way because the country also has more than adequate wind power resources, some geothermal, some pumped hydro storage, and so on. There is no lack of clean, renewable energy resources to develop but the urgency which is required to accomplish more reliance on the renewable source of energy and thereby eliminate the use of fossil fuels for energy requirement.